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nud⋅nik

  [nood-nik]
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–noun Slang.
a persistently dull, boring pest.
Origin:
1945–50, Americanism; < Yiddish, equiv. to nud- base of nudyen (see nudge 2 ) + -nik -nik
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nud·nik also nud·nick   (nŏŏd'nĭk)   
n.   Slang
An obtuse, boring, or bothersome person; a pest.

[Yiddish, nudne, boring (from nudyen, to bore; see nudge2) + -nik, -nik.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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nudnik [ˈnʊdnɪk]

  1. n.
    a bore; a pest; a crank. (From Russian via Yiddish. Also a term of address.) : Tell that nudnik to stay away from here. He is such a pest.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

nudnik 
1947, from Yiddish, with agential suffix -nik (q.v.) + Pol. nuda "boredom" or Rus. nudnyi "tedious, boring," from O.C.S. *nauda-, from PIE *neuti- "need" from root *nau- "death, to be exhausted" (see need).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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